The "biological weapons labs": This is one example of a claim that was quickly and prominently challenged by additional reporting  May 21, 2003: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms The story left the impression that the Administration claims represented a consensus, because we did not know otherwise. By June 7, however, the same reporters, having dug deeper, published a front-page story describing
the strong views of dissenting intelligence analysts that the trailers were not bio-weapons labs, and suggesting that the Administration may have strained to make the evidence fit its case for war. (Last Sunday,
Mr. Powell conceded that the C.I.A. was misled about the trailers, apparently by an Iraqi defector.)  June 7, 2003: Some Analysts of Iraq Trailers Reject Germ Use  June 26, 2003: Agency Disputes C.I.A. View on Trailers as Weapons Labs